Bangert: Here is what's Good2Know about your paper

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As you browse through today’s Tribune, I expect few readers will notice a new name atop the fourth section of our paper.

Good2Know, it’s called today.

It used to be called Life, in case you don’t remember. The Life section front essentially was the typical lifestyle section that newspapers have produced for decades.

I recently was given the opportunity, and the challenge, to improve our Sunday paper. For awhile, I have felt that our lifestyle section has been a bit of a weak link in our Sunday edition. We devote considerable resources to strong, in-depth A1 packages; our hard-working sports staff frequently fills page after page of our Sunday section with strong local stories; and our ag and business writers, Eric Brown and Sharon Dunn, provide interesting trend and feature stories for our Sunday Business section.

We just haven’t met those same standards with our lifestyle section.

Beginning today, I’m optimistic our readers will discover we have a new and improved section.

The new name reflects exactly what we hope to provide: Information that we think will be good to know for our readers. In two words, the section is about well-being. In four words, it’s about: how to live well.

We plan on offering our readers tips on a wide variety of topics: eating, nutrition, cooking, exercise, parenting, relationships, working smart, dealing with toddlers, dealing with elderly parents, dealing with teenagers, living more efficiently in your busy life, making good financial decisions, and being good citizens.

Over time, we hope to offer our readers a steady diet of ways they can improve their physical and mental health, their relationships, their work lives and their communities. In general, we think we’ll be offering readers all sorts of “stuff” that is Good2Know to help them lead productive and satisfying lives.

Many weeks, such as today’s package, we’ll tell these stories in non-traditional ways: with lists, charts, graphs, small photos, short and quick-hitting snippets. You won’t find many traditional narrative stories that are 500 words or longer, although occasionally we might find a topic that we believe is worth telling in the traditional way.

To accomplish these goals, we’ve asked two talented people in our newsroom to oversee the new Good2Know section — Analisa Romano and Dan England.

Analisa has been our city-county government reporter for several years and this move takes advantage of her skills as a feature writer and enterprise reporter. Dan has developed a strong community presence and a statewide reputation as one of the best feature and outdoors writers in the region. Dan will continue to write his popular Page 1 Tuesday human interest column, and Analisa will soon be doing a Page 1 column on Mondays that focuses on Greeley’s diversity.

Dan and Analisa also will write for our weekly entertainment section, NextNC, which publishes every Thursday, and our weekly Adventure page (on Friday).

Dan has won a multitude of state and national awards for his feature writing — his piece last Thanksgiving Day on Dick Ziegler’s recovery from a hit-and-run accident is one of the best stories you’ll ever read in any publication. So it seems fitting that Dan will take on the title of features editor, overseeing the Good2Know section along with NextNC and Adventure.

Feel free to suggest Good2Know topics to Dan and Analisa, and we hope you enjoy our new section.

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For our web readers, you also might have noticed a new online feature: We’ve been offering an e-edition of The Tribune at www.greeleytribune.com. The e-edition is an exact replica of our print edition in a PDF format that can be read on a computer or tablet.

We had a soft launch of the e-edition about two weeks ago. It’s available for free now, but it won’t stay that way for long. If you are a home-delivery subscriber who also is a registered reader of our website, you’ll get the e-edition for no additional charge. But non home-delivery readers will have to pay $8.95 a month for our e-edition as well as access to all of our web content.

Go to our home page to check it out. Go to greeleytribune.com/logincontest for current subscribers to set up their online subscription or to start your new subscription.